Lurker > saspa

And also going back to what you said, I'm not sad to see naval combat go but I am surprised that Valhalla doesn't have it considering the whole vikings and sailing thing.

I just realized what it is I'm liking. It's doing the Lost/The Good Place thing of flashbacks into the characters' lives, and I'm here for it.

BlueFalcon posted...

Have you seen Wellington Paranormal? It's a spinoff of What We Do in the Shadows and I think it's better.

Ted Lesso is also an excellent show. Only Murders in the Building is a comedy/drama show that I also found hilarious.

Love Ted Lasso.

So wellington paranormal is in the same universe as what we do in the shadows. a new zealand show yeah I have no idea where I'm even going to begin finding this.

Ok so I'm officially a fan, on season 2 now. I like it. For a comedy show that plays off the character's death as jokes, it has some surprisingly heartfelt moments.

90% of indigenous people in the americas died because of the diseases europeans brought over like smallpox

Vyrulisse posted...

Valhalla is way better in terms of spectacle, cutscenes and how they are animated along with dialogue in my opinion. Eivor isn't as snarky as Kassandra, they are a bit more rough considering they are a Viking but they aren't without humor or the ability to laugh at things at times.

The environments in Valhalla range from snow (of course) to English countryside. A lot of rivers, plains and swampland.

Gameplay wise it shares a lot of things but just done "better" in my opinion. When you do the search action it's MUCH more noticeable and things you ping are way easier to detect. There's no naval combat but you have a longship to coast down rivers and can raid monasteries and other things from it with a group of your own.

You also don't get swamped with gear drops. There are a lot of weapons and armor but it's stuff you find in chests or as a reward for a quest rather than constantly dropping off enemies. You upgrade what you like.

That's encouraging for when I finally get to the game in a few years time.

I'm guessing they kept dialogue trees from odyssey?

Icy snow huh, I remember that setting from 3/AC Rogue and I can't say it's my favorite, but english countryside is nice.

The gear drops and general min/maxing was definitely a bunch of tedious crap in ac odyssey so that's also good to hear.

jumi posted...

They are way less damage spongy than Odyssey. Only the zealots (that game's cultists) can absorb a lot of damage.

Oh thank the lord.

And I heard they removed level scaling? Because I'm not sad to see that go.

Is it just one protagonist or do you have to choose between 2 again

With the amount of hours I put into it, I liked this game but it had so many flaws. I really hope Valhalla is better, because I don't think there was anything in Odyssey I liked more than in Origins. Sure the environments had more lush greenery just because the setting is Mediterranean rather than a desert, but Origins brought me back to the series, and it had one of the best protagonists ever.

So I did it, beat the korfu quest and beat lost tales of greece.

Korfu quest turned out to be the absolute last thing of the game. Ending had this cool little cutscene that said this weird thing that Kassandra will return in AC valhalla? But the protagonist on the cover of that game is clearly someone else in a completely different time period.

I already finished the first season, and overall I've come to like some of the characters. The poor camp counselor who died is nice, the giddy lady is sweet, the 80s politician is annoying in a funny way, the old lady is just annoying.

So the plague victims in the basement... they're just the same actors as the regular ghosts right, with different makeup done on them?

Still amusing

jumi posted...

You can godify yourself in Valhalla too. Later on you get a hammer that basically does AoE damage. XD

That's great I hope enemies aren't damage sponges because this game deserves a lot of criticisms for that. If I didn't break the game with my damage modifiers I would have absolutely loathed the game, takes like several minutes just to defeat one enemy rather than insta-kill them with hero strike ability.

Still all criticisms aside, I did put in a whopping 250 hours into this game. 200 hours of just faffing about and 50 hours of actual story-related gameplay

And I still need to do the korfu quest and then lost tales of greece. Glad I left them alone because I want to use the new abilities I gained from the DLC on something

The modern day bits were extremely sparse and I couldn't care about this new team any more than I did the old team, but despite that honestly if I had to choose between Desmond or Layla as protagonist I would be fine with Layla as protagonist for the series, despite this weird turn the DLC took with her story arc (which was previously kinda non-existing anyway)

I don't think there's a single website that I don't zoom in for. Unlike most pc nerds I don't sit hunched with my face glued to the monitor, I set it at the end of the desk like 2 feet away. Hell gamefaqs is at 250% zoom and I love that browsers/websites nowadays are optimized for zoom in.

That is indeed super neat. When I got Persona 5 Royal I got all the dlc for vanilla Persona 5 with it, and only near the end of the game did I realize I had all these gamebreaking Persona sitting right there in the compendium that I could have used to cheese the game.

whateveroh posted...

I'm playing through it now, and 30 hours in I haven't seen any Greek gods or anything, so when does that start?

It... doesn't?

What's interesting is that since this is set in ancient greece, they went with the Greek God names for the dlc content and general world building, but the AC series started with the Roman names, so you have this mishmash of the Roman analogous Isu "gods" with the greek isu "gods"

Like Poseidon fighting Juno and Aita

Welp... I did it. Beat Fate of Atlantis DLC. So just like with the main story, I was kinda underwhelmed by this ending too.

Also the dlc kinda removes all the mystery of the strange mythologies and isu. So basically in the AC world the isu were this ancient civilization and humans were their creations and any mythological beasts like sphinx or minotaur were the results of human experimentation by the isu. And the ancient gods were just isu. And humans didn't like being slaves to them so there was a war between the 2 races and then I think there was a solar flare from the sun that wiped out everything but humans survived? So kinda like if planet of the apes but planet of the... humans. And where does the templar-assassin thing of the series fit in? I guess since there are leftover ancient weapons from the isu both groups search for it to take over the world/liberate the world etc.

I played persona 3 like 4 or 5 times so I'm good but any word on Persona 6?

Ok the show is not half bad. I actually like the actress. For a premise as old school and quaint as "being haunted by ghosts" it's still grabbing my attention.

Heat is a great movie.

Glengarry Glen Ross is a great movie.

Both are movies that deserve to be watched.

Once Upon a Time... it's complicated. Out of mild curiosity, which version of Once Upon a Time in America do they have? This movie has been through decades of attempted restoration, from 1 hour 30 minute versions, to 2 hour versions, to 3 hour versions... I think the final attempt has been a 4 hour version. Which is weird because the movie is bizarrely awful though I would never say it on reddit or other movie boards. I love Sergio Leone's work with Once Upon a Time in the West being not just one of the best Westerns of all time, but best movies. And the Dollars trilogy speaks for itself. But Once upon a time in america is this weird and simultaneously boring movie attempting to portray the NYC immigrant experience/gangsters with some extremely questionable bits.

Huh. Chipotle is e.coli infested poison, but I never thought of it as fast food the way I do mcdonalds, burger king, taco bell, pizza hut, kfc etc.

I do still eat at fast casual places, but I haven't eaten cheap fast food in nearly 8 years. I simply can afford not to.

... is that the cobra kai kid? They got him as jaime reyes blue beetle? That's... that's literally perfect casting omg. Are we sure this is DC and not MCU? They haven't done perfect casting since the turn of the century.

MICHALECOLE posted...

The aesthetic was cool but the gameplay was never anything to write home about

Thiiiiiss. I tried playing the original, it was beyond awful and unplayable pc game. I was super hyped for Madness Returns, but when I finally played it... extremely mediocre.

Weirdly enough the DS Alice in Wonderland game was actually the most fun Alice game to me.

DrizztLink posted...

They leaned a lot harder into it, certainly.

I liked it myself.

Also it has a couple QoL upgrades that I have trouble going back and losing, namely that you can get your bird to loot shit you kill with a bow.

That's cool, I hope there's a lot of them that help out with the gameplay. I'm not much of a bow user myself except in a pinch, for my preferred playstyle it's Assassin, then Warrior, then Hunter at the absolute end.

Atlantis is pretty beautiful.

Wait just one minute. Is Atlantis... is this the place from those flashbacks in the first few assassin's creed games all those years ago? Isu and human living together, with Isu being slave drivers of humans, is this the city? My memory is hazy but if anyone remembers way back in AC 2 and 3 and Brotherhood and the ezio trilogy, you'd find hidden videos that showed a futuristic looking city that was destroyed, was it Atlantis this whole time? Hell of a way to reveal it in a DLC for a game. And they dropped names I recognize but don't remember, Minerva and Juno and who else. I remember these being significant in the previous games but it's been a decade. Atlantis has these little statue pillars with sort of journal entries that do a bit more world building.

And what's the deal with Layla, so she's evil now? Corrupted by the staff or something? That's an interesting turn that also just suddenly happened for the DLC and was not present at all in the main game. I'm not invested in the modern day story but I found Layla pretty inoffensive, I'd almost say I like her.

You know what I love is cracking the code to stat maxing and basically breaking the game. I hit for 700% critical damage, and that's 700% of my already 100,000 assassin damage. My critical hit chance is 100%. So pretty much every assassin kill is a one hit kill. Sometimes even if I get in a fight I can do one-hit-kills.

While the whole inventory system and damage modifiers system is really obtuse and tedious, I got some great gear with some great stats, engraved the missing damage modifiers they needed to achieve the above, and now even in the DLC which I'm assuming they meant to make it way tougher, it's been super easy.

I really hope Valhalla combat is good, it's gonna be tough going from a literal one-hit-god to button mashing and dodging again.

But they didn't air that arc on TV when I was watching so my impression of Dragon Ball was a bunch of toilet jokes.

If they had made Dragon Ball Origins 3, would have been great to see the Piccolo arc as it was

Defeated Hades, who turned out to be a chump. They kept showing Poseidon in his scenes, and here it is, episode 3: Atlantis.

This is it, this is what it was all building up towards. This is actually Atlantis. Not that big empty cave in Greece, this is what Atlantis looked like.

So far, I have to say, I liked Elysium, didn't like the Underworld too much however it seemed shorter, and now Atlantis seems like the big one, hopefully they end the DLC out with a bang.

DarthAragorn posted...

It's a CBS sitcom so I assumed it sucked but Rose McIver is almost enough to get me to watch it

Yeah I will say I was a bit crestfallen that it was under CBS and not NBC, but Rose was enough to make me watch izombie, and I ended up loving that in the beginning so she's enough to make me want to watch.

I just got both, I think I'll watch the british version and then american version. Funnily enough the british version hasn't actually finished airing, there's still one more season reportedly.

After 2016, and especially after 2020, so many things that used to seem unrealistic and ridiculous in movies/shows became not just accurate, but rather downplayed the stupidity of some people.

LordYeezus posted...

No, it's just a coincidence but she weirdly has a lot of songs that predicted her future like that. Every Time and Slave 4 U being others

The fact that she was a mouseketeer proves the disney cycle of crazy is real...

Punished_Blinx posted...

There's this in the new series

https://youtu.be/CyoTk3wLCxI

The clip cuts off before Porky Pig reveals it as a joke to an old Daffy Duck

Ok this is very weird. I tried playing this video but the sound wouldn't come on with my logitech sub woofers pc speakers. I could hear the music, but not the voices. I switched to the internal nvidia speakers from the monitor I'm watching this on, and lo and behold I could hear the character's voices speaking again! Why is my logitech sound system not working properly. For other youtube videos the sound is coming on fine what's special about this video.

Bullet_Wing posted...

Have you tried Letterkenny? Give it a couple episodes if not, for a show primarily about hicks and rejects, it's surprisingly clever and fun

I enjoyed Ghosts a lot btw. UK version much more so, but US is good too

Huh, a Canadian show. The last Canadian show I watched was Schitt's Creek, the year before Superstore. Is it a stoner comedy type?

dolomedes posted...

i watched a few eps of the UK show but i wasn't into it

Dang. I'm not too crazy about UK comedy myself, I like dry humor but most of UK shows end up being a bit of a chore to watch

Any fans, thoughts on the show? I've been looking for a comedy to watch while waiting for Party Down and What We Do in The Shadows to finish up. After watching Superstore last year and really enjoying it, I'm open to comedy shows I missed out on initially that aren't Schur shows or Modern Family.

Recently heard about this show and it caught me by surprise. The US version has Rose Mciver, who went from dealing with zombies in iZombie to dealing with ghosts in Ghosts. It's based on a UK show with a similar premise which I'm watching now.

Beans and lentils > that fake meat stuff though. And those have existed for centuries

Holy crap. Phoebe and Brasidas are in the underworld. Back in episode 1 Persephone tried to lure Kassandra to her cause by saying she could revive one of them (and then of course reneged on that deal) and now I've met both of them and done their sidequests.

A nice way for the game to give them a sendoff in the afterlife. Although Brasidas decided to stay in the underworld to help lost souls. Phoebe went on to Elysium to find her parents. Yet the previous episode just established that Elysium is a fake paradise so...?

Going in watching those 2 videos I was not expecting to side with Tom Cruise both times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUZd7qnzJ5o

This was way back in 2001, kinda crazy did she predict it, was she trying to tell us

Been trying to find comfortable shoes but I don't know why the newer models are so narrow and the toe box so small, like they're trying to squish our feet together. Decided I'd just rebuy the same shoes I had but they're all replaced with the newer crappier models. I used to have Asics that fit me really good, but the newer ones don't feel right. Bought new balance m1340 but the shoe is stiff as hell and not comfortable to even walk in .

If I find good shoes again I'm buying 3 pairs, don't ever want to deal with this hassle again.

Kaiganeer posted...

capcom stopped hiring union VAs

This is so something capcom would do.

Ok I just skimmed a couple of cutscenes. Sure she doesn't really sound like re 4 Ada, but it's literally just a voice. Nothing ridiculously outrageous like kamoana in tales of berseria or literally any old school jrpg game.

And even if it was, wtf at some people. I find it hard to believe that the fanbase of re is this awful. star wars I get, but even games?

evilpresident posted...

Gamers are awful.

"Ah man, I do not like this lady's voice acting. I know, I'll threaten and harass her online! I am a normal person!"

Seriously, how do you get up in the morning and decide to do this? It's like with the lady that played Rose (I think?) in the new SW trilogy.

Or, you know, literally a 10 year old kid who they permanently scarred for life because he was in a dumb star wars movie like all the rest?

AlCalavicci posted...

This. Faint would need to be on that list

My 3 favorites from Meteora are probably Hit the Floor, Breaking the Habit, and maybe Somewhere I belong

Faint is more like the hidden gem of the album

metallica846 posted...

Dude scared the living shit out of me as a kid!

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/2/4/AABjp5AAEVRs.jpg

I knew I wasn't the only one, so few openly admit it.

It's quite obvious they're gonna do what Nolan did with bane though right? Not an actual clayface

Kaiganeer posted...

ah, so it's a falcom game

ps2-era graphics as well?

Why are you calling out ys 8 like that.

Just beat episode 1 and I'm now in Hades realm. I take it back I miss elysium, the place was gorgeous and now I'm in this awful post apocalyptic looking landscape that's basically just the pride lands from lion king after the hyenas took over, completely dead. With hell hounds to boot

I'm a pretty big Ys fan so would like any action rpg from them, gurumin being another fun one I played. But I don't think tokyo xanadu is for me, it looks very anime and basic and not as fun as Ys. Maybe if it were more like a persona action rpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2H4l9RpkwM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXYiU_JCYtU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsCD5XCu6CM

Love all 3, but if I had to choose I've always liked Breaking The Habit most, but Numb seems like it's the most famous one, it has the most views.